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Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by mikeyouse »

swader999 wrote: post #117
mikeyouse wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes - a bunch of discredited quacks (with multiple papers now retracted for the terrible quality of their science) causing enormous headaches for every practicing doctor and nurse having to treat the unvaccinated "Facebook Researchers" who end up in the hospital trying to get their useless cocktail of meds.

What specifically in the linked protocol do you disagree with?

I don't need to do a line-by-line rebuttal of a Covid protocol my HVAC technician wrote -- though he likely did more to help the pandemic by changing out HEPA air filters than the Front Link covid quacks did with their awful advice and martyr complex.

If someone is catastrophically and unapologetically wrong on problem 1a, you don't really need to pay attention to their solution to problem 1b.

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Post by Panther34543 »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #93
kingsloi wrote: post #17

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I had similar symptoms in January 2019, I went to Urgent Care and then the ER because of heart arrhythmia, I felt sick, but no major fever. I put it down to anxiety (never suffered with before), but part of me wonders if it was COVID. Out of curiosity, where do you live? I too live next to a bunch of chemical/steel plants and have been tracking air quality, weather, traffic, etc. https://millerbeach.community in Gary…

You might be interested in reading this (very long, amateur, pseudononymous, non-peer-reviewed) analysis theorizing "SARS-CoV-2 presence in China as far back as March 2018." [0] [0] https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-conceale...

For a very long time I've held a theory that the general pandemonium due to the mischaracterization of the media regarding the danger of the virus to the average person resulted in substantially more voluntary hospital admissions than would have otherwise occurred, thus reducing availability for those who actually needed to be hospitalized, thus increasing deaths.

I, and nearly every colleague in the downtown San Francisco office I worked at, contracted Covid in early January 2020. There should be no doubt that there was already widespread community transmission in California in late 2019. Yet, strangely, "hospital capacity" did not become a concern until right after the U.S. declared a nationwide state of emergency in March.

Why was it not a problem in the nearly 4 months prior? I believe many people were convinced that the virus was far more dangerous than it was, and voluntarily began seeking hospitalization when none was actually needed.

Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by favorited »

allturtles wrote: post #85
wantsanagent wrote: post #44

This is a big hammer. Please note this section: "A proton pump inhibitor (PPI) pantoprazole 40 mg/day was also prescribed for gastric protection. Such a regime must only be followed under strict and qualified medical guidance to obviate any dangers, especially haemorrhagic bleeding, and of the therapy as a whole." Induced hemophilia is no joke.

To be clear in case it's not clear to others, the PPI is not the 'regime' that creates the risk of bleeding, it's the thing you take to provide some stomach protection against the damage/potential damage from the other drugs.

Right. PPIs are available without prescriptions in the US, and are considered very low risk medications.

Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

nradov wrote: post #75
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #10

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Just for my own curiosity I clicked on your link. The I-MASK+ protocol also currently recommends Ivermectin (and if you don't have ivermectin, use black cumin seed), mouthwash, and a half dozen different vitamins for prevention and early treatment.

There is some clinical evidence to support curcumin as a prophylactic or treatment for COVID-19. The evidence so far is weak, but it's cheap and has no real side effects at normal dosage so from a risk versus reward standpoint it may be worth a look. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2021.6693...

Fair enough, but outside of the ivermectin misinformation, it feels a lot like busywork, giving people agency and a feeling of having done something when they haven't.

Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by edmcnulty101 »

mikeyouse wrote: post #118
ccn0p wrote: post #101

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On that logic, if that's the case, then shouldn't a responsible "mainstream" media (CNN, NY Times, WaPo, etc.) be talking about these published papers by Pierre Kory et al. even if positioned as "minority viewpoints"? Instead what we tend to see is fact checkers springing into action and media continuing to only push a single "majority" narrative further dividing all of us instead of uniting us together to have open…

This is such a silly line of argument -- If someone writes a paper that says "the sky is pink" -- you would afford them no airtime at all, even as "minority viewpoints". These doctors are quacks, they get as much mainstream media coverage as quacks deserve.

Listening to Robert Malone and numerous other scientists like Anders Tegnell and Dr. Peter McCoullough and other people with credentials that make your credentials look like those of an HVAC technician, it's strange that the HVAC technician would call them quacks.

Just because you have the main stream media on your side doesn't mean your narrative isn't 'the sky is pink'.

It could mean the emperor wears no clothes but is too unaware to see it.

Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by whatshisface »

kyralis wrote: post #103
merpnderp wrote: post #73

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The mRNA vaccines create spike proteins which are fully functional and will bind to ACE2 receptors. The only real difference is that the mRNA vaccine spike proteins don't cleave off their connectors and litter your blood with extra trash and also won't flex down to the cell wall. But any cell randomly getting a spike protein tag-alone likely will no longer be a fully functioning cell.

> But any cell randomly getting a spike protein tag-alone likely will no longer be a fully functioning cell. Do you actually have any evidence to back this up? Cells have a myriad of receptor sites, and single bindings without other resultant activity are highly unlikely to cause the cell significant damage. The side effects of the vaccines have nothing to do with the vaccine particles themselves and everything to do…

Typically speaking the immune system will clear away cells with abnormal stuff on their membranes but I don't know about this specific case.

Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by naasking »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #5

I think I’m going to start taking aspirin. Oddly enough I took that a few times because I didn’t have ibuprofen and I do feel like it helped a lot with the weird long symptoms I am experiencing. I’m triple vaccinated before anyone asks. I haven’t tested positive for Covid on rapid tests but a lot of people seem to be in the boat I’m in right now.

Long-term ibuprofen use has a lot of its own problems, like gastrointestinal bleeds and interference with androgen production.

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Post by codingdave »

imnotreallynew wrote: post #58

It was my understanding that the existence of “long covid” is still debated as there hasn’t been any real evidence for it other than patient anecdotes.

> https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects/...

Highlighted on the page: "As of July 2021, 'long COVID,' also known as post-COVID conditions, can be considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). "

Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by JohnicBoom »

JPKab wrote: post #19
runnerup wrote: post #8

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I'm hopeful that research into whatever "long covid" syndrome is/isn't leads to excellent new medical knowledge that applies to much more than just COVID edge-cases. I suddenly got similar symptoms since getting a nasty version of strep throat last October. Notably I had an elevated fever (>102F) for quite a few days straight. I've never had COVID but I did get the mRNA vaccines + booster. Since that fever, my heart…

I have a recommendation for you: You need to exercise. You are in your mid-thirties now. It's a big problem if you don't. But you have bad air quality where you live. I've dealt with this myself in the past. A relatively inexpensive solution that I recommend for anyone in areas with poor air quality is to build your own filter fans. Get a standard box fan, get a furnace filter that has HEPA ratings, duct tape the fur…

You can use more than one filter. I've heard it called a Corsi box: https://www.texairfilters.com/a-variation-on-the-box-fan-wit...

Basically, you're making a cube. One side is the box fan, with the intake coming from the inside of the cube. The other sides are taped together filters. It significantly reduces the strain on the motor of the fan, and you can use the cube for a long time before replacing the filters, since each one is filtering so much less air.

Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by kahrl »

merpnderp wrote: post #62
wantsanagent wrote: post #44

This is a big hammer. Please note this section: "A proton pump inhibitor (PPI) pantoprazole 40 mg/day was also prescribed for gastric protection. Such a regime must only be followed under strict and qualified medical guidance to obviate any dangers, especially haemorrhagic bleeding, and of the therapy as a whole." Induced hemophilia is no joke.

Do people really get holes in their stomach often enough that this regiment would cause them to bleed to death?

Yes. Absolutely. GI issues are some of the most common medical problems. Ucers, polyps, sores, diverticula...
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